Quotes About Balance

Un bourgeon, une feuille morte, la mort et la vie Le fruit du hasard, non, un principe établi

What apps used by your line function are mission-critical? Which way should the balance between security and user convenience tilt for each of them? ? What data is the most sensitive? What would be the consequence if it were (a) stolen or (b) destroyed? ? How long will your firm avoid permanent damage if your entire IT portfolio became unavailable? This justifies the ongoing costs of the type—cold, warm, or hot—of backup site.

As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.

The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.

What I think, Chatty says, is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.

A story happens when two equally appealing forces, or characters, or ideas try to occupy the same place at the same time, and they're both right.

You know what happens when you feed the birds? They forget to fly south and freeze to death.

When I read a magazine, I feel connected to the world, in on everything. When I read a book, I feel removed from the world, isolated, as if I've slipped off into a soundproof booth. It is the same with listening to the radio (connected) versus listening to a CD (removed). Both fill a certain need, balance the other out. There's the getting away, and then there's the coming back.

Those pizzas I ate were for medicinal purposes.

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy.

Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can.

What use for? asks my mother, jiggling the table with her hand. You put something else on top, everything fall down.

A good government had to guide its people, sometimes gently, sometimes strictly, just as parents did. It could allow certain freedoms, but in a style that suited the country.

It's my fault she is this way. I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these two things do not mix?

Too much happiness always overflows into tears of sorrow.

I sat down and remembered a saying Old Aunt used to tell me whenever I complained that I had been wrongly accused: "Don't strike a flea on a tiger's head." Don't settle one trouble only to make a bigger one.

Cuándo algo va contra tu naturaleza no estás equilibrado... Por eso nunca puedes avanzar, siempre estás retrocediendo.

With imagined tragedy hovering over us, we became inseparable, two halves creating the whole: yin and yang.

Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. [...] Too much water and you flowed in too many directions.

I made a promise to myself: I would always remember my parents' wishes, but I would never forget myself.

I made a promise to myself: I would always remember my parents' wishes, but I would not forget myself.

When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you—not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.